The Osceola times., 1887-04-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from varisus Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

powerfully cafncst speech IN tnc Bfltlsn
House OF Commons against the proposed
Coercion law.
A YorSe actress named Agnes Folsom,
whose whereabouts has been unknown TO
her family for some time, has at last been
discovered by her father In New York,
and court and domestic scandal Is pend
ing.
HENRY +. DixIR IL reported TO have
bought a half interest in the Bijou Thea
ter, New York, and will act there perma.
nently in burlesque.
TnE House committee on apportionmcnt
OF the Pennsylvania Legislature has de.
cided TO let Mr.. Randalrs district remain
rs 1t is.
Mrs. JONI FARNmAM, aged one hundred
and eight years, died In the st. Elizabeth
Hospital at Utica, N, Y, on the night OF
the 23i
HoS. JAMES q. BLAiSR is making tour
Of the West
CARTER HARRisoS, Of Chicago, has re-
considered and positively refuses to again
run FOR mayor.
THERE seems to be but little doubt tn at
Secretary Fairchild has been Informed by
tae President that he Is TO be Secretary OF
the Treasury after April |. This will pre-
vent any disturbance In financial affairs
probably.
Os the cath United States Consul Jordan
and mum Der of American residents OF
Liverpool went TO the mouth OF the Mer-
sey In special steamer, and heartily
greeted ex-Secretary Manning on his ar
rival by this Arizona.
MEMORIAL exercises In honor of the latc
President Arthur will take place In the
Assembly chamber at Albany, n. Y, on
the evening OF April 90 Ex.Attorney-
General Brewster, of Philadelphia, and
Chauncey M. Depew will deliver ad-
drcsses.
A COMBINATION OF wealthy men, includ
ing Senator Payne, Of Ohio; Erastus
Wiman, OF New York, and James Nc.
Laren, Of Ottawa, Ont, Is reported as
being formed to control sil the valuable
iron deposits In Cauada, now said TO be tn e
richest in the world.
PROFOUND sensation has been caused
in Canada by the receipt OF cablegram
from London, announcing that Sir John A.
Macdonald, Premier OF Canada, is to re-
sign and GO TO England as Canadian High
Commissioner, and that he win then be
elevated to the peerage and return as Gov.
ernor-Generai, to succeed Lord Lans-
downe.
Ok the cath the Pres idcnt appointed q.
&. Straus, of New York. TO be Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
OF the United States TO Turkey; Harold
Marsh Scwall, Of Maine, Consul-General
Of the United States at Apia, Samoan
Islands, and N. j. George, OF Tennessee,
Consul OF the United States at Carlotte-
town, Prince Edward Island
Ok the cath cable dispatch was re-
rQival from Rama bat ha
Holy Father, motu proprio, desiring TO
show honor to the Most Rev. Arch bishop
Corrigna, has named him prelate as ssistant
TO the pontifical throne.
TxE Duchess of Cumberland sister OF
the Princess OF Wales, has become dan.
gerously dcmented and has been sent to
IN asylum.
Rev. DR. McGLyyy, is announced for q
lecture In New York on the "Cross of a
New Crusade"
JAMES M. TRorrgn, the new Recorder OF
Deeds at Washington, ID. c., is so i'll that
his life is despared Of
THE Governor Of Missouri has issued his
proclamation calling the Legislature To-
gcther in extra session May II next
MAURICE 6KAu, the opera manager IN
jail at Quebec, Can, makes an appeal,
stating the financial misfortunes which
preciptated his troubles.
REPuBLICANs are claiming TO have made
some sort OF deal with Mr.. Randall on the
tariff question and have called of the
fight on him In Pennsylvania.
EMILY SoLDBSE, the operate artist, has
sued John McCaull for breach of con
tract, no having discharged her the other
day, after hiring her for the whole sea
SON
Ok the 25th Cardinal Gibbons took for
NAL possession of his titular church al
Rome. The proceedings were very i'm
pressive and elaborate and male up
most memorable day for Americans al
the holy city
OK the 25th Vincent dc Bau srnfend, or
Austrian, who served under X Dssuth in
the Hungarian revoluto aud came to this
country as an exile, died at ella, Mo.
ARTHUR FARRr, NJ. d., +, II S., IA celc
brated surgeon and writer, physician ex
traordiuary 10 Queen Nictori physician
and acceucheur to the Princess Of Wales
and her sisters, died on the 25th He had
just reached his seventy seventh year.
BRIcApIER-9ENERALO ORLANDO Is. VIII
cox, commanding the Department of tn
Missouri, will be llacel on the retired list
April 10 prox The probabilities are that
SoiOuct wesley mtrfitt, superintendent
Of the West Point Military Academy, will
succeed him.
The passengers were all taken of the
stranded steamship Scotia, lying of Fire
Island, N. ", on the a6th.
A BILL has been passed by the Wiscon.
sin Legislature requiring railway com
panies to furnish annual passes to legisla.
tors, State officers and members of courts
OF record.
Mr.. GLADSTONE threatens that II the
cloture is unduly brought into exercise In
discussing the coercion measure, he will
appeal to the Speaker of the House OF
Commons TO refuse TO put q motion to
close debate.
HoS. WM MAcDouGAL, one of the fran
ers OF the Canadian confederation. has
created a sensation in the Dominion by de-
Tending the position taken by Secretary
Bayard IN regard 10 the narrow con
struction put upon the treaty OF ISIS by
the present Dominion Government
The Chinese Minister at W ashington
gave an elegant dinner on the evening OF
the Goth, at which Chief Justice Waite
and several members of the diplomatic
corps were present Minister Chang goes
10 Paris and Madrid during the summer,
returning to Washington in September.
JUNE X. KrNNIA, of Aichi Ken, Japan, a
senior medical student at the Michi gan
University. and Miss Mary L. Gallagher,
Of East Saginaw, have just been married
at Ann Arbor. Mr. Kimnia proposes TO
take his bride to Japan, and Mr.. Gallagher
will let her go.
REV. MATsoN MrR SMITH, ID. d., pro-
fessor OF pastoral theology in the Protest
ant Episcopal Divinity school in Philadel-
rhia died In thai city ON The 20 b Of haart